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World Leaders From China to EU Hold Climate Meeting Without US in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

It's a gift link. Folks with Javascript enabled just get the article without needing that.

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Brain Drain: Scientists Are Fleeing the U.S. as Trump Cuts Funding | Mass firings and cuts to research funding are causing American scientists to look for opportunities overseas (www.rollingstone.com)
 

Archived copy of the article

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World Leaders From China to EU Hold Climate Meeting Without US (www.bloomberg.com)
 

China’s Xi Jinping and the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen were among the leaders on a private video call organized by the United Nations.

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops (www.404media.co)
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Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says (www.nytimes.com)
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Russia Executes P.O.W.s Without Caring Who Watches, Ukraine Says (www.nytimes.com)
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The Mission to Electrify Africa Might Finally Be Under Way | Plunging solar panel prices and international funding are now spurring the rollout of mini grids that can transform rural communities (www.bloomberg.com)
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Global Sea Ice Hits a New Low | The data comes after researchers reported that the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest on record. (www.nytimes.com)
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Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds | Third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says report (www.theguardian.com)
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Olympic Track Officials to Require Sex Tests for Female Athletes (www.nytimes.com)
An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps | In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago

Definitely not 100% external. A chunk of cases are known to be genetic.

And these people were eating a mushroom known to be mildly poisonous.

An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps | In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Exactly. There's a reason I won't eat any Amanita: the similarity of edible and deadly species in that genus makes them the main source of mushroom fatalities in North America.

By contrast, messing up a bolete ID is likely to result in a meal that is too bitter to eat. That's a much more acceptable risk.

An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps | In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 month ago

And these days, that means making sure it's a book written by someone who knows what they are doing, rather than AI auto-generated bullshit.

An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps | In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago

If you know what you're doing, you get incredible deliciousness.

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An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps | In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? (www.theatlantic.com)
 

From the responses, the team learned that the ALS patients were not the only mushroom foragers in town, but they shared an affinity for a particular species that local interviewees without ALS said they never touched: the false morel.

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How Scammers Launder Money and Get Away With It | Documents and insiders reveal how one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates. (www.nytimes.com)
Canadians Turn on Tesla, and It Becomes Physical | More than 80 Teslas were damaged in Hamilton, Ontario, the police said, amid other acts of vandalism against the company owned by Elon Musk. in c/world@lemmy.world
Canadians Turn on Tesla, and It Becomes Physical | More than 80 Teslas were damaged in Hamilton, Ontario, the police said, amid other acts of vandalism against the company owned by Elon Musk. in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 61 points 1 month ago (13 children)

And to be clear, "death" isn't much of an exaggeration:

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Canadians Turn on Tesla, and It Becomes Physical | More than 80 Teslas were damaged in Hamilton, Ontario, the police said, amid other acts of vandalism against the company owned by Elon Musk. (www.nytimes.com)
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